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SAMPLE INFO : UA1100

Sample ID:	UA1100
Station ID:	Little_Montauk
Latitude:	65.104
Longitude:	-141.417
Datum:	NAD83
Sample Type 1:	Tephra Fall

Text Description:
Tephra sample from within 2 m of the surface. Within inorganic silt, below a ~1 m thick organic-rich silt. Up to 1 cm thick, with a sharp lower contact and diffuse upper contact. Tephra is continuous across the section until it is obscured by colluvium.

References:

The variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska

GEOCHEM DATA

StationID	Latitude	Longitude	Geologist	DateVisited	Age Info	Volcano	Eruption	Location Description	Text Description	Sample ID	Sample Type 1	Sample Type 2	Final Unit	Material	Coeff	SiO2	TiO2	Al2O3	FeOT	MnO	MgO	CaO	Na2O	K2O	P2O5	Total-majors	REF majors	METH majors	Fe2O3/Fe203T orig	FeO/FeOT orig	Volatiles csv	METH volatiles	Cs	Rb	Ba	Sr	La	Ce	Pr	Nd	Sm	Eu	Gd	Tb	Dy	Ho	Er	Tm	Yb	Lu	Y	Zr	Nb	Hf	Ta	Pb	Th	U	Sc	V	Cr	Fe	Co	Ni	Cu	Zn	Ga	Mo	As	Na	K	Ref trace1	METH trace1	Rb	Ba	Sr	La	Ce	Nd	Sm	Eu	Gd	Dy	Er	Yb	Lu	Y	Zr	Nb	Pb	Th	U	Sc	Ti	V	Cr	Ni	Cu	Zn	Ga	Ref trace2	METH trace2	Light csv	Halogen csv	other major csv	other lile csv	other ree csv	other hfse csv	other hpe csv	other tm csv	other misc csv
Little_Montauk	65.104	-141.417	Unknown, Unknown		106000 ± 10000 TL; 7423; Age is approximate. Average age of two infrared stimulated luminescence ages on loess bracketing VT tephra at Halfway House.			Little Montauk, Alaska. Series of loess bluffs on a 60-m-high bedrock terrace. Coordinates from Jensen and others (2011). Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83.	Tephra sample from within 2 m of the surface. Within inorganic silt, below a ~1 m thick organic-rich silt. Up to 1 cm thick, with a sharp lower contact and diffuse upper contact. Tephra is continuous across the section until it is obscured by colluvium.	UA1100	Tephra Fall	Cumulate		Glass		70.11	0.59	14.87	3.34	0.11	0.74	2.63	4.57	2.88			7423	EMP		3.34	Cl=0.16; H2O=2.77	EMP

SAMPLE LOCATION

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